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E. P. HAWORTH,
Superintendent.

JOHN W. KEPNER, M. D.
House Obstetrician.

The Willows Maternity Sanitarium

A STRICTLY ETHICAL HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR

THE CARE OF SECLUSION MATERNITY PATIENTS

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HE WILLOWS MATERNITY SANITARIUM is a modern and up-to-date Sanitarium and Hospital devoted to the seclusion and care of unfortunate young women. It offers to the medical fraternity an ethical and Christian solution to one of the difficult problems of the profession. The Sanitarium extends to these young women protection and seclusion in congenial and home-like surroundings before confinement, as well as providing efficient medica and hospital care during delivery and convalescence.

The Willows has been located, planned and especially equipped for seclusion maternity work. It is strictly modern, having steam heat, electric lights, gas and baths with hot and cold water. The patients' rooms are light, airy and furnished for home-like comfort as well as hospital convenience. The dining service has been especially planned for the work and wholesome, nourishing and well cooked meals are served.

The Hospital equipment is complete and modern, having been installed for this particular work. It includes two specially fitted Confinement Chambers, sterilizing rooms, massage room, diet kitchen and necessary drug and linen rooms.

The Sanitarium is open to any reputable physician to handle his own high-grade cases in it. When the physician is not accessible to The Willows or finds it otherwise impractical to care for his case, Dr. John W. Kepner, House Obstetrician, will handle it. The mothers and babies are attended by a corps of efficient, specially trained nurses.

Entering early in gestation is important for preparing the patient for accouchement through systematic, hygienic methods and massage. Patients may enter as early as they desire. A special system of abdominal and perineal massage has been devised and has proven very successful in the prevention of Striae Gravidarum and as an aid to labor.

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The care of the babies is one of the important features of The Willows' work. The Nursery is modernly equipped and no reasonable expense is spared in the babies' care. such arrangements are made the institution assumes the entire responsibility of the child, keeping it until a good home can be found where the child will be legally adopted.

The Willows Maternity Sanitarium has accommodations meeting the requirements of the most fastidious as well as others for those patients whose means are limited. But, notwithtanding the many advantages of its services, the charges are reasonable.

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2929 Main Street,
ANSAS CITY, MO.

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The Doctor's Funnybone

Matter of Taste

The small boy is hoping that the scarcity of fats may soon include castor oil.

Friend Husband Again

Do not feed your husband; but husband your food. -Hooverized item (not official),

Definition

Appendicitis: Operation upon a man rolling in wealth for removal of the roll-Lay Press Humor.

Table Manners

A traveling "cancer doctor" advertises that he "does not use the knife." We hope as much can be said for the doctor's table manners.

Poems the Doctor Should Know

IN FRANCE

A Southern home there knit one day,
A woman sweet with hair of gray; ·
A service flag with one blue star,
With its bright blaze of white and red,
Within the window proudly hung-
"Some loved one's over there," I said;
She bowed her head in proud assent,
And smiled upon the star of blue,
The white hands, knitting, dropped a stitch-
Tears glistened in her eyes like dew;
Then softly kissed the star, and said:
"My son is now in France and-dead."

I saw her dear one lying there,
Upon the battlefield afar,

Her mighty sacrifice for all-
With awe, I humbly touched the star.
-Williams Ellsworth Fowler.

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THE GAIN

What can be worth this cost of gold and tears, These lands laid desolate with fire and blood, This ruin past the mending of our years,

These generations blighted in the bud? To seek until we find reality;

To know ourselves, our brothers, and our Lord; In our own hearts to feel the searching sword That kills the false, however dear it be. O God! give us to know

The holy heart of suffering, and kneel

To give thee solemn thanks that we can feel
A little of the pain that these have borne
Who for thy sake the crown of thorns have worn!
We dare not say, "Be ours as Belgium's heart;
Ours as the heart of France!" We only pray,
Help us to do our part,

And to the children of a brighter day
Give an enduring peace that shall not stray
From thy dear law of Love, whate'er befall-
God, that were worth it all.

--Amelia Josephine Burr in Everybody's.

GROWING OLD

We'll fill a Provence bowl and pledge us deep
The memory of the far ones, and between
The soothing pipes in heavy-lidded sleep,
Perhaps we'll dream the things that once had been.
'Tis only noon, and yet too soon to die,
Yet we are growing old, my heart and I.

A hundred books are ready in my head
To open out where Beauty bent a leaf.
What do we want with Beauty? We are wed,
Like ancient Proserpine, to dismal grief,
And we are changing with the hours that fly,
And growing odd and old, my heart and I.

Across a bed of bells the river flows,

And roses dawn, but not for us; we want The new thing ever as the old thing grows

Spectral and weary on the hills we haunt, And that is why we feast, and that is why We're growing odd and old, my heart and I.

-Francis E. Ledwidge, the young Irish poet, killed while fighting at the front for England.

Notes on Reliable Remedies

"I have used Tongaline constantly since I began to practice medicine and it has proved one of the most reliable remedies with which I have had any experience. At this place where thousands of syphilitic and rheumatics come each year, I prescribe Tongaline every day, because it combines so perfectly with most any drug and it is especially useful as a vehicle for potassium iodide, rendering the stomach more tolerant and furnishing a valuable adjuvant to the effects of the iodide."

A Double Function-In appropriate dosage, dependent on the age and condition of the patient, Abilena Water will perform the double service of eliminating waste matter from the intestinal canal and of stimulating the secretion of bile, thus insuring the antiseptic action and the lubricating and protective service of that fluid. Clinical results prove therapeutic claims, and The AbilenA Company wants you to appreciate the merits of Abilena-let them send you free a liberal supply for trial purposes.

Anemia-The condition recognized as anemia is one that represents many different clinical pictures and cannot be satisfactorily treated by any single remedy. Iron does well in one case and fails in another. Arsenic likewise. Combined, these two often succeed where either one alone fails. Patients come for treatment in whom, even after careful examination by modern diagnostic methods, it is impossible to lay the finger upon exactly what is at fault. Empirically such cases respond to what is recognized as reconstructive and tonic treatment. After recovery from the acute stage of many diseases, the patient does not promptly return to a normal state of health, strength or vigor. In such cases, something in the way of a general builder and tonic is indicated, and usually succeeds. It is for these reasons that the combination of hematinic, antihemolytic, reconstructive, nutrient and tonic agents, marketed under the name of Hemaboloids-Arseniated (with strychnia), has come into such general use and become justly popular. It not only supplies iron in the most easily assimilable form, insomeric practically with hemoglobin itself, and derived from natural, i. e., food sources, but at the same time provides for the stimulation of the production of more red blood corpuscles, the protective effect of arsenic against disintegration of the corpuscular elements of the blood, the tissue building and metabolic stimulating effect of predigested nutrient (protein), together with the tonic effect of strychnia. Write to the Arlington Chemical Co., Yonkers, N. Y.

Special Sale of Slightly Damaged Goods-On the morning of February 3 fire broke out in the Missouri building, Kansas City, which destroyed the salesroom and stock of the Physicians' Supply Co., 1021 Grand Avenue. The company secured temporary quarters at the northwest corner of Tenth and McGee streets, and is doing business as usual, new goods having been secured on telegraphic orders. The company his also opened a salesroom at Nos. 1012-14 McGee street, second floor, over Shackelford's Wall Paper Co., where will be conducted a sale of goods which were slightly damaged by smoke and water. The list includes all staples pertaining to the surgical supply line, instruments, leather goods, sutures, rubber goods, furniture, etc., most of which is in good condition same as new. The discounts vary from 25 per cent to 50 per cent and it will be to our readers' advantage to inspect this merchandise and select such items as may be needed.

Camphor in Oil in Pneumonia - Camphor when added to culture media even in the proportion of 1 to 10,000 inhibits the growth of pneumococci. A series of experiments on rabbits in which an emul sion of pneumococci was injected intravenously. showed that infection of camphorated oil retarded death from two to five days in all and in 50 per cent of the cases prevented it. Clinical experience has demonstrated that hypodermatic injections of camphor are not toxic. A prominent physician of New York City has given over four thousand injections of camphor in oil, şometimes giving as high as one hundred and fifty grains daily to one patient without any symptoms of poisoning. Camphor hypodermically exerts an inhibitory action on the pneumococci in the blood stream and appears to have an antitoxic effect analogous to diphtheria antitoxin. It is recommended that a dose of 10 units be injected as soon as possible after the initial chill and repeated every eight hours except in bilateral pneumonia, and in cases with severe toxemia in which injections of fifteen to twenty mils should be given every six to eight hours. When temperature, pulse and respiration become normal, injections can be made every twenty-four hours until the lungs begin to clear up. Eli Lilly & Company supplies ampoules No. 28 Camphor in Oil.. Each ampoule contains 10 mils of solution representing 36 grains of camphor. The fine reputation for quality enjoyed by Eli Lilly & Company, known as THE Ampoule House, is assurance to the physician that in specifying Lilly ampoules there can be no doubt of the therapeutic activity of the preparation. Our readers are referred to Eli Lilly & Company for further information on this or other subjects pertaining to ampoule medication. It is said that this concern offers the most complete line of American-made ampoules to be found in this country.

LESSONS OF THE WORLD WAR

"It is an apparent paradox, but a great truth, that the present war, the most destructive to mankind, has given us more constructive knowledge in medicine and surgery than could have been acquired by years of research under normal conditions. It is not inconceivable to believe that during the next generation more lives will be saved through what the war has taught us than will be lost in the entire conflict.

"Wholesale destruction has taught us how to save; from unnumbered wounds and injuries we have procured a wider knowledge of healing; from the great loss of life we have discovered new methods of preserving it. Every physician and surgeon owes it to himself and the profession to utilize this newly acquired knowledge in his own work."

The

Management

of an

Infant's Diet

Constipation

The most important causes of constipation in infancy have a direct bearing upon the diet, and it follows that in attempting to correct this condition a readjustment of the diet should be the first consideration.

Suggestions for preparing food mixtures that will assist
in establishing normal elimination of waste products of diges-
tion are contained in a pamphlet which will be sent to
physicians upon application to

Mellin's Food Company
Boston, Mass.

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MANY THANKS! To those who so Kindly remitted during February

The expenses connected with printing and publishing The Medical Herald have increased enormously. In addition to the increase in cost of paper, supplies and labor, the raising of the postal rates causes an increase in postage of 50 per cent. To send out bills for renewal subscriptions would cost us many hundred dollars. One half of this can be saved if the subscribers will remit without waiting to be billed by mail. Therefore, we shall not send out bills this month, as has been the custom in the past, but instead print below a coupon which can be used in making remittance. It is hoped that our subscribers will remit, voluntarily, thus making it unnecessary for us to go to the expense of sending bills. Those who pay for 1918 within 30 days from date, will have the choice of 25 valuable premiums. A list will be sent on request.

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